Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present
KOKONA
11th NOV
Presented by AllouAqui Dance Theatre
Choreographers & Performers: Delicia Sefiha & Xavi De Santos
Creative Producer: Sam De La Torre
Featuring some original music by Jordan Dilger
Dramaturgical Support: Xenia Aidonopoulou
Production Consultant: Callum Holt
As if detached from the rest of the world, KOK and KONA are on a journey of exploring their own and each other's bodies; which, peculiarly, feel different and alike at the same time. With only a few clues from outer society, they set out to understand who and how they should be. Driven by their curiosity and their desire to become one, they dive into playful experimentations about the feminine and masculine, and create space for transformations.
KOKONA is a dance theatre duet experimenting with ideas around body, identity and self-expression. It constructs a world in which bodies are detached from their materiality, to playfully explore how we would experience different norms and constraints if we hadn’t yet embodied them.
BOOKING INFORMATION
Duration: 60 minutes
Interval: n/a
Start time: 11 NOV - 7:15pm
Content Warnings: Partial nudity
Age guidance: 14+
Tickets (All unreserved)
General Admission £16
Concession | Senior over 60 | £14
Access for All | Unemployed | Student £14
Note: Please contact boxoffice@theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk for your complementary ticket for a carer/companion/friend
CAST & CREATIVES
DELICIA SEFIHA - Choreographer & Performer
Delicia is a UK based dance artist working across various areas, including performance, choreography and education. She holds bachelors degree in combined creative arts (Dance & Literature) and a research masters in Choreography & Performance. She is currently working as a freelance dance artist & dance educator, a lecturer in performing arts and the artistic co-director of AllouAqui Dance Theatre.
Her choreographic practice dives into our humaness and our fantasy worlds to playfully interweave them, creating stories and characters that reveal aspects of the realities they exist in while also attempting to shift them. Often in a mix of movement, imagery, text and sound her work takes various shapes and forms, from dance theatre performances to improvised participatory projects.
Her ongoing creative research is exploring movement as an 'inter' space, a meeting place, a link between dance and theatre, ideas and practices, realities and fantasies, texts and bodies, the individual and the collective!
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XAVIER DE SANTOS - Choreographer & Performer
Xavi De Santos is a Bath-based freelance performance practitioner and facilitator. Over the last decade, alongside devising and performing with Dust Ensemble, Yama Dance Company, and for the company he co-founded, AllouAqui Dance Theatre, he has been working with community groups across the Southwest.
Xavi creates work for and with dancers, actors and multidisciplinary artists, often blurring the lines between these disciplines. His interdisciplinary practice has a strong focus on the theatrical potential of the moving body, a creative approach he has been developing since his training began in his hometown of Porto, Portugal. Since then, Xavi has also trained at Bath Spa University, and most recently, completed a Master’s in Performance Practice at Middlesex University, London, with a particular research focus on composition strategies.
This year, Xavi was shortlisted and a proud finalist at the Bath Creative Awards 2026 for the categories of ‘Inspirational Person’ and ‘Creativity for Good’ with his recently founded Creative Playgrounds in Bath and Trowbridge, as part of Xavi’s ongoing commitment to making creativity accessible and strengthening the artistic community.
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SAM DE LA TORRE - Creative Producer
Sam is a Creative Producer working with a range of institutions, companies and artists to bring ambitious artistic visions to stages and other performing spaces.
A core member of AllouAqui Dance Theatre since its beginnings, Sam has played a pivotal role as Assistant Director, supporting productions including Final Test and Milan’s Game.
With a background in acting, theatre-making, and producing, Sam is passionate about developing and nurturing emerging creative projects that challenge conventions and captivate audiences. His previous work includes touring nationally with Plymouth’s Barbican Theatre, as well as reaching international audiences with AllouAqui Dance Theatre and theatre company Dust Ensemble.